The same argument that is made for novels being filmed can be made for the tv shows on the list. It's because they are tv shows that allows them to develop their characters and stories and intensifies the emotional resonances that they have with the audience. A Dexter movie (which I would still go and see by the way) would not be able to get across to fresh eyes the many complexities in the story so far. And they would have to crowbar in a hell of a lot of expositionary stuff just to fill in the gaps. I'm sure it would be possible but why would you want it?

the gobshites cancelled that around the same time as this life - some poxy trend of it's so good let's cancel it!" recently the trend has reared it's ugly head with Shark WHY,WHY,WHY - IT WAS A GOOD SHOW!!!!!

Is it just me or would it not be more interesting to have films made into TV shows instead? I mean a great film could be improved by adding more back story and depth to each character in fact it could make some pretty terrible movies work much better. I mean look at Battlestar Galactica.Terrible movie, o.k show.

dr_finklestein battlestar galactica wasn't a terrible movie turned into a ok show. It was a god awful series which had its episodes shoved together into terrible movies before being adapted 20 years later into an amazing show

would love to see a carnivale movie made.the end of the second series was just way too open to not see it finished.since the series is highly unlikely to be recommissioned a movie could work to ie up loose ends(it would have to have one almighty final battle between good and evil!)

The show is AWESOME- The premise is that a secret agent has been 'burned' (cut off from his agency) and is now stuck in Miami. On the path to finding out who 'burned' him, he busts arms dealers, drug dealers, people traffickers, and generally tears miami apart in EVERY episode. And it has Bruce Campell in it.

This is complete piffle. "Some things only work in long form" - then you say you want a cinematic version of Deadwood, the most complicated and epic TV show that HBO has produced and you want to squeeze this down to a 2 hour or 3 hour treatment just to tidy up the end. How about another series?

Usual lack of knowledge and research from Empire. Sometimes I get the feeling that you just bang out these articles just to make it look like you are all doing something.

This is complete piffle. "Some things only work in long form" - then you say you want a cinematic version of Deadwood, the most complicated and epic TV show that HBO has produced and you want to squeeze this down to a 2 hour or 3 hour treatment just to tidy up the end. How about another series?

Usual lack of knowledge and research from Empire. Sometimes I get the feeling that you just bang out these articles just to make it look like you are all doing something.

This is complete piffle. "Some things only work in long form" - then you say you want a cinematic version of Deadwood, the most complicated and epic TV show that HBO has produced and you want to squeeze this down to a 2 hour or 3 hour treatment just to tidy up the end. How about another series?

Usual lack of knowledge and research from Empire. Sometimes I get the feeling that you just bang out these articles just to make it look like you are all doing something.

Some of these are less remakes of the series (like State of Play) and more final "episodes" to tie up loose ends (like Serenity), aren't they? Which would be how Deadwood would work, and is actually probably a pretty good argument for a BSG film. I agree that it wouldn't work for the West Wing, though. And I'm not too sold on the idea of a Spaced movie either.

Deadwood & Carnivale. One you mentioned, and one another poster here mentioned, both fantastic HBO shows cut down before their time. I would say that both, more so than The West Wing (which is great, but, especially in it's first few years, episodic) are 'long-form' shows. Movies of either would probably feel rushed, bogged down in unecessary exposition to bring newcomers up-to-speed and because of the accelerated pace, a little off-balance. However despite all of these negative points, *some* closure is better than none. Speaking of which, though never-gonna-happen, how about another Twin Peaks film that actually ties things up??? As much as I love Fire Walk With Me (so underrated), I think anyone who's seen the show still yearns for a little more...